Tearful Humza Yousaf QUITS admitting he cannot 生き残る Holyrood 信用／信任 投票（する） and 'underestimated' （激しい）反発 from axing 連合 with Greens - as SNP 急落（する），激減（する）s deeper into 大混乱

Humza Yousaf 発表するd he is 辞職するing after failing to 派手に宣伝する up enough support to 生き残る a 信用／信任 投票（する）

Watched by his wife Nadia in Edinburgh , Mr Yousaf 譲歩するd he had 'underestimated' the （激しい）反発 from 溝へはまらせる／不時着するing the Bute House 取引，協定

Mr Yousaf walked off after his valedictory 声明 without? taking any questions

Alba defector Ash Regan 持つ／拘留するs the 重要な 投票（する） needed to save Mr Yousaf's 職業

Former SNP leader and long-time Nicola Sturgeon 同盟（する） John Swinney (pictured this morning) has been touted as an 暫定的な first 大臣?

Ms Sturgeon paid 尊敬の印 to her short-serving 後継者 and あられ／賞賛するd Mr Yousaf for his 'grace, dignity and 正直さ'

In his 辞職 声明, Mr Yousaf said: 'Unfortunately in ending the Bute House 協定 in the 事柄 I did I 明確に underestimate the level of 傷つける and upset that 原因（となる）d Green 同僚s.

'For a 少数，小数派 政府 to be able to 治める／統治する 効果的に 信用 when working with the 対立 is 明確に 根底となる.'

He 追加するd a 大勝する through the no-信用／信任 投票（する） was '絶対 possible'.

But he 追加するd: 'I am not willing to 貿易（する） in my values or 原則s or do 取引，協定s with whomever 簡単に for 保持するing 力／強力にする.'

Mr Yousaf went on: 'After spending the 週末 反映するing on what is best for my party, for the 政府 and for the country I lead, I've 結論するd that 修理ing our 関係 across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the 舵輪／支配.

'I have therefore 知らせるd the SNP's 国家の 長官 of my 意向 to stand 負かす／撃墜する as party leader.'

He said the SNP's dream of independence seemed 'frustratingly の近くに' - even though most 観察者／傍聴者s regard the 原因（となる） as having 滞るd.?

In a long valedictory 声明, after which he ignored questions from the マスコミ, Mr Yousaf said: 'If only every person in Scotland could be afforded the 適切な時期 of 存在 First 大臣 for just one day.'?

Mr Swinney is said to have been approached by 上級の party 人物／姿／数字s to become an 暫定的な First 大臣.

Whoever is chosen to 取って代わる Mr Yousaf will be the seventh person to 持つ／拘留する the 地位，任命する since the Scottish 議会 was 設立するd in 1999 ? 同様に as 存在 the second person in just over a year to have the 最高の，を越す 職業.?

Green co-leader Patrick Harvie 示唆するd his party could work with another SNP leader, welcoming the 'personal 責任／義務' Mr Yousaf had taken.

He said: 'Humza Yousaf is 権利 to 辞職する. His position was no longer tenable after he broke the 社債s of 信用 with the Scottish Greens and with everyone who 手配中の，お尋ね者 a stable, 進歩／革新的な, プロの／賛成の-independence 政府. It is 残念な that it has ended this way, it didn't need to. We draw no satisfaction or 楽しみ from this.

'But the Scottish Greens could no longer have 信用／信任 in Humza Yousaf after he chose to 片側だけに end the Bute House 協定. In doing so he let 負かす／撃墜する the large 大多数 of Scottish Green and SNP members who 認可するd the 協定 who 手配中の，お尋ね者 it to work.

'He chose to end a stable 大多数 政府 and jeopardised the 進歩／革新的な 政策 programme that both parties had committed to and were working to 配達する.

'It is to his credit that he has taken personal 責任／義務. Now though is the time to return to some 安定.'

But Scottish 労働 leader Anas Sarwar said there must be a Holyrood 選挙.?

Humza Yousaf decided over the 週末 that there is no way for him to 生き残る as SNP leader

Mr?Swinney was?副 First 大臣 of Scotland under Nicola Sturgeon from 2017 to 2023

Kate Forbes is seen as の中で the 走者s and riders to take over from Mr Yousaf?

Mr Yousaf 発表するd the end of the 協定, …を伴ってd by a 調印する language interpreter, on Thursday

Scottish Green Party co-leaders Patrick Harvie (left) and Lorna Slater (権利) arrive for First 大臣's Questions on Thursday. The Greens have said they will support a 投票（する） of no 信用／信任 in the First 大臣

Mr Yousaf's 未来 is reliant on whether he can 説得する Ash Regan (pictured on Thursday), the former SNP leadership 候補者 and now Alba MSP, to 支援する him

Scottish 長官 Alister Jack said Mr Yousaf had to 辞職する after 'lurching from 危機 to 危機'.

'Humza Yousaf's leadership has lurched from 危機 to 危機 from the very start, and he could not 命令（する） the 信用／信任 of the Scottish 議会,' the Tory 大臣 said.

'Scotland now needs a stable, 機能（する）／行事ing Scottish 政府 焦点（を合わせる）d on the 問題／発行するs that 事柄 most to people ? 直す／買収する，八百長をするing public services and growing the economy.'

負かす／撃墜するing Street said the UK 政府 would will work with Mr Yousaf's 後継者 to 配達する on 'the real 問題／発行するs that 事柄 to people'.?

Pamela Nash, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Scotland in Union, said:?'Like his 前任者s, he spent far too much time obsessing about the break-up of the UK while ignoring the real 優先s of people in Scotland, who are living with the 失敗s of 17 years of the SNP in 政府.'?

Mr Yousaf, who took over from Ms Sturgeon in March 2023, was 直面するing two 投票（する）s of no 信用／信任, one in him 本人自身で from the Tories and another in his 政府 from 労働.

除外するing the 統括するing officer there are 128 MSPs in total, but the SNP only has 63 投票（する）s while the other 野党s have 65.

Over the 週末 Mr Yousaf 調査するd 選択s to 納得させる one of the 野党 MSPs to 投票（する） to save his 政府.???

If he managed to get to 64 投票（する）s and tie the 投票（する）, the 統括するing officer would 支援する the status quo, he would have been able to 持つ／拘留する on.

The most likely 候補者 he 直面するd the chance of 変えるing was Ash Regan, the 単独の MSP in Alex Salmond's Alba Party.

Mr Yousaf 以前 述べるd her 出発 from the SNP in October last year as 'no 広大な／多数の／重要な loss'.?

Ms Regan, a former SNP leadership 競争相手 to Mr Yousaf, wrote to him with a 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 優先s over the 週末, 含むing 'defending the 権利s of women and children'. That is thought to mean 受託するing the results of the Cass review, which criticised gender therapies, in 十分な.

The pair went 長，率いる-to-長，率いる during the SNP leadership （選挙などの）運動をする, where she called for more extreme independence 策略 and 表明するd her 完全にする 対立 to both transgender ideology and the Greens in 政府.?

Her 姿勢 on gender 改革（する）s also led her to やめる the 閣僚 during the 投票（する）ing 行う／開催する／段階 in one of the first 陳列する，発揮するs of discontent within the SNP on the trans 問題／発行する.?

JK Rowling even waded into the 列／漕ぐ／騒動, 説 it is 'karma' that the First 大臣 is now reliant on Ms Regan, who defected to Alba in 抗議する at the SNP's gender ID 姿勢.?

Ms Regan was also 押し進めるing for a かかわり合い to 投資する in the Grangemouth oil 精油所, and 片側だけの moves に向かって an independence 国民投票.

Speaking on Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, her boss Mr Salmond?効果的に laid out his 需要・要求するs, 説 a '最高の，を越す li ne' of any discussion with Mr Yousaf would be the idea of 生き返らせるing the Scotland 部隊d 戦略 ? which would see a 選び出す／独身 プロの／賛成の-independence 候補者 stand in each Scottish 選挙区／有権者.

But those 需要・要求するs seem to have been too much of a cost for Mr Yousaf to 耐える.

A 広報担当者 for Mr Yousaf 解任するd the idea, 説: 'This is fantasy. There is no 可能性 of the First 大臣 agreeing any 取引，協定 like this with Alex Salmond.'?

会談 with the Greens look to have come to nothing, にもかかわらず an ますます desperate Mr Yousaf 持つ／拘留するing out an olive 支店 and 説 he had not 'ーするつもりであるd?to make them as angry as they are'.

Speaking on Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Alex Salmond said a '最高の，を越す line' of any discussion with Mr Yousaf would be the idea of 生き返らせるing the Scotland 部隊d 戦略?

JK Rowling said it was 'karma' that Mr Yousaf ended up reliant on Ms Regan, who defected to Alba in 抗議する at the SNP's gender ID 姿勢?

緊張s had been rising between the SNP and Greens over trans and 逮捕する 無 政策s, but Mr Yousaf's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 捨てる the いわゆる Bute House 協定 was still a bombshell.?

The Bute House 協定 gave the SNP-led 政府 a 大多数 at Holyrood but it （機の）カム under 緊張する in 最近の days after the Greens said they would put the 未来 of the 取引，協定 to a 投票（する） by their members.

Some in the Greens were unhappy at the Scottish 政府's 最近の dropping of 2030 気候 的s and the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to pause the prescription of new puberty blockers at Scotland's only gender clinic.

First 大臣 at the time Nicola Sturgeon (centre) and Scottish Green Party co-leaders Patrick Harvie (left) and Lorna Slater (権利) 発表する the 調印 of their 連合 取引，協定, which became known as the Bute House 協定, in Edinburgh on August 20, 2021

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross (pictured in 議会 on Thursday) had （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するd a no 信用／信任 動議 in Mr Yousaf

労働 leader Anas Sarwar (pictured on Thursday) 誓約（する）d to support the 動議 and （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するd his own in the SNP 政府 more 広範囲にわたって

Will '少しの 解放する／自由な' Kate Forbes 開始する another 企て，努力，提案 for the SNP leadership? Or might John Swinney, Jenny Gilruth or Neil Gray be the 最高の，を越す choice of party members?

Humza Yousaf has やめる as Scotland's First 大臣 after little more than a year in Bute House .

The SNP leader 誘発するd an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 炉心溶融 by 解雇（する）ing the Scottish Greens as his 力／強力にする-株ing partners at Holyrood.

But Mr Yousaf was then left 直面するing the real 可能性 of losing a no 信用／信任 投票（する） in the Scottish 議会 after the Greens turned against him.

His 辞職 has left the SNP 直面するing a second 意見の不一致を生じる leadership contest within いっそう少なく than 18 months.

So, who might consider a 企て，努力，提案 to 取って代わる Mr Yousaf as SNP leader and first 大臣?

Kate Forbes

Kate Forbes was 辛うじて 敗北・負かすd by Mr Yousaf in la st year's SNP leadership 選挙 as the party chose a 後継者 to Nicola Sturgeon.

The 34-year-old 安全な・保証するd 48 per cent of the 投票（する） to Mr Yousaf's 52 per cent after second preferences were counted.

Ms Forbes was 以前 the Scottish 政府's 財政／金融 長官, having become the first woman to 持つ／拘留する the 地位，任命する in February 2020.

She went on maternity leave in July 2022 - the first ever serving Scottish 閣僚 長官 to do so - and gave birth to her daughter Naomi in August that year.

Ms Forbes, who is married to Ali MacLennan,?has been touted as a 未来 SNP leader since entering the Scottish 議会?as MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch in 2016.

The daughter of missionaries, Ms Forbes spent much of her childhood in India.

She is a member of the 解放する／自由な Church of Scotland, いつかs known as the '少しの 解放する／自由なs', which is …に反対するd to gay marriage and believes there are few circumstances in which abortion is 正当化するd.

Ms Forbes has 以前 said she has been '有罪の' of 'tiptoeing around' her Christian 約束 in interviews.?

Ms Sturgeon's 行政 was （刑事）被告 of 急ぐing through its 議論の的になる gender 身元 改革（する）s in late 2022, while Ms Forbes remained on maternity leave, ーするために 妨げる a 可能性のある 反乱 by her.

Jenny Gilruth

Jenny Gilruth is the Scottish 政府's education and 技術s 長官 and MSP for 中央の Fife and Glenrothes.

The 39-year-old is married to Kezie Dugdale, the former Scottish 労働 leader.

事前の to entering politics, Ms Gilruth was a 第２位 school teacher in Edinburgh and Dunfermline.

In a stint as Scotland's 輸送（する） 大臣 between 2022 and 2024, she had to を取り引きする a 支払う／賃金 論争 between train drivers and ScotRail bosses.

Ms Gilruth has already been dubbed the 'Stop Kate Forbes' 候補者, with it thought 同盟（する）s of Mr Yousaf and Ms Sturgeon could 決起大会／結集させる 一連の会議、交渉／完成する her.

John Swinney

John Swinney was Scotland's de puty first 大臣 in Ms Sturgeon's 行政 at Holyrood.

The 60-year-old has been an MSP ever since the Scottish 議会's 創造 in 1999.

He has held a 一連の 最高の，を越す 閣僚 職業s in the Scottish 政府, 含むing a beleaguered stint as education 長官.

He also deputised as 財政／金融 長官 during Ms Forbes' maternity leave.

Mr Swinney has been touted as an 暫定的な first 大臣 to 取って代わる Mr Yousaf while a new SNP leader is chosen, but he might also fancy the 職業 on a 十分な-time basis.

Stephen Flynn?

Stephen Flynn took on the 役割 of SNP Westminster leader in December 2022 に引き続いて the 辞職 of Ian Blackford まっただ中に the party's 内部の 分割s.

He has been MP for Aberdeen South since 2019 and has made 成果／努力s to try and shed （人命などを）奪う，主張するs he is at the heart of a 'laddish' group of SNP 政治家，政治屋s in London.

On taking over from Mr Blackford he attacked 報告（する）／憶測s about a 'Tuesday Club' of 国家主義者 MPs.

He said it was 'upsetting' to be linked to a culture of beer and curry - （人命などを）奪う，主張するing he can 'barely stomach korma'.

The 35-year-old's possible ambitions to 後継する Mr Yousaf could be 妨げるd by the fact he does not sit in the Scottish 議会.

But there is precedent for an MP to lead a Scottish party after Douglas Ross took over as 長，率いる of the Scottish Tories in 2020.

Mr Ross's 前任者, Ruth Davidson, deputised for him at First 大臣's Questions before he was able to take a seat in the Scottish 議会 himself at the 2021 選挙.

Mr Flynn has recently been 偉業／利用するing 労働 分割s over the Gaza 衝突 at Westminster, with his SNP MPs vociferously 需要・要求するing a 停戦.

On Friday, he 示唆するd he would not stand to be SNP leader if Mr Yousaf were to 辞職する.

He told the BBC: 'I believe that the party leader should have the ability to be first 大臣 of Scotland.

'As you and all your listeners know I am an MP in Westminster, I do not have the ability to be the first 大臣 of Scotland, so I am sure people can read between the lines in that regard.'

Neil Gray

Neil Gray is the Scottish 政府's 現在の health 長官 and is 見解（をとる）d as a の近くに 同盟（する） of Mr Yousaf.

The 38-year-old is MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, having 以前 been MP for the 同等（の） Westminster seat from 2015 to 2021.

事前の to entering politics, Mr Gray worked as a 生産者 and reporter with BBC 無線で通信する Orkney.

He then became an SNP 研究員 at Holyrood and, later, an MSP's 選挙区／有権者 officer 経営者／支配人.

He joined the Scottish 政府's 階級s in January 2022.

?Angus Robertson

Angus Robertson was touted as a possible 交替／補充 for Ms Sturgeon ahead of last year's SNP leadership contest.

The 54-year-old is the Scottish 政府's 憲法 長官 and has experience of leadership within the SNP, having been the?party's 副 leader between 2016 and 2018.

He also led the pa rty for almost ten years at Westminster while an MP.

Mr Robertson's （一定の）期間 as the SNP's Westminster leader ended in 敗北・負かす when he lost his seat at the 2017 総選挙.

This 誘発するd him to やめる as the SNP's 副 leader and he 始める，決める up a プロの／賛成の-independence think-戦車／タンク during his time out of elected office.

But he returned to frontline politics at the 2021 Scottish 議会 選挙, when he became MSP for Edinburgh Central.

When he 支配するd out a 企て，努力，提案 to 取って代わる Ms Sturgeon as first 大臣, Mr Robertson said:?'As the father of two very young children, the time is not 権利 for me and my family to take on such a 抱擁する かかわり合い.'

He 追加するd it was a '特権 and honour' that party 同僚s 手配中の，お尋ね者 him to take on the 職業.